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by patio11 6y ago
I write about it on Twitter a bit, and should probably upgrade it to an essay at some point just so people who share my intersection of interests have a convenient entry point.
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by patio11 6y ago
Yep. I don't even need bespoke legal work; I'm happy if people just send an invoice with Commercial License as a line item and agree via email "Our Commercial License is the MIT license in the README and is available for $1,0
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by patio11 6y ago
That’s right; listened to it myself. (The first part of their podcast is always a dissection of a poker hand.)
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by patio11 6y ago
Flash Boys: Not So Fast is the argument in much more depth, and should be dispositive.
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by patio11 6y ago
I know of no reason we'd not support the first, though feel free to run that by us formally if you want explicit permission in writing (which presumably a rideshare platform large enough to have a leasing operation would). We don'
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by patio11 6y ago
Suppose a driver for a rideshare app wants to pay their car payment. Stripe Connect can't be used to hold funds from many rides for a month; they have to pay it out to a bank account (which they might not have) or to a disbursement car
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by patio11 6y ago
We are extremely in favor of making financial services available to more people in more places at lower cost and with less arbitrary restrictions. That said, we won’t be able to solve this problem singlehandedly in a day; Stripe Treasury is
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by patio11 6y ago
Stripe Treasury presently supports USD only, but we do envision multicurrency accounts as we roll it out to more markets. Depending on where you are, we may have like-for-like settlement available for you (allowing you to receive EUR to a E
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by patio11 6y ago
Stripe Treasury does not violate our terms, and allows SaaS platforms (and similar) to provide their business users with access to capabilities which are regulated with those capabilities fulfilled by entities with the appropriate licensing
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by patio11 6y ago
We have been ramping up our rollout of Stripe Issuing over time, and will do similar for Stripe Treasury. Can we have your email address? (You can email it to me at this handle at stripe.com) Depending on the specifics of your use case, we
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by patio11 6y ago
(Stepping in for Tara because she is currently dealing with a literal fire. Never a dull moment on launch day.) We're starting the limited beta for businesses serving businesses in the U.S., but our ambitions for products are always br
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by patio11 6y ago
I remember as an election judge in IIRC 2000, while in high school, having to enforce the electioneering thing against someone in the facility. Some things never change. I also came away from it thinking "Oh goodness it is amazing demo
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by patio11 6y ago
Note that there are similar issues in macOS, too. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211947 <-- Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update notes
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by patio11 6y ago
He's describing "tax aware borrowing." JP Morgan explains this to their clients here: https://www.jpmorgan.com/jpmpdf/1320698073211.pdf ; the example on the bottom of page 2 walks through the mechanics.
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by patio11 6y ago
The interest rate environment will, net of this one-time fee, still make purchasing a home this December much cheaper than it was last year at the same time. (3.1% versus 3.9% for a 30 year fixed.) Credit quality has declined because some b
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by patio11 6y ago
https://singlefamily.fanniemae.com/media/23726/display
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by patio11 6y ago
Should be in Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur.
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by patio11 6y ago
Fun historical fact: one of the Japanese daily newspapers, during the Occupation, was prevented from publishing an editorial (accurately) describing the Constitution as being written by the occupying powers. They instead described the new C
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by patio11 6y ago
Taxation isn't primarily by residency but rather by income source, and sourcing rules make it very easy to have income attributed places other than where you live. (I was taxed by both California and Illinois in 2019 despite continuous
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by patio11 6y ago
There's a Foreign Earned Income Exemption which will eliminate the tax payment requirement for most people on wage income, but you'll be taxed on investments/interest from the first dollar. People with income higher than the
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by patio11 6y ago
Very possibly true. I get a lot of my writing style from writers I enjoy.
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by patio11 6y ago
Yes, that.
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by patio11 6y ago
Amazon has publicly said is has 10k+ on Alexa/Echo, and you're welcome to get other examples from chatting with folks.
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You're welcome!
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A quirk of Silicon Valley culture is that senior employees on the inside of it tend to be rather sophisticated about how they think about equity, and they also tend to be rather reticent about talking about that externally, because of facto
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by patio11 6y ago
It's sufficiently a term of art in Silicon Valley that HN had threads about it 13 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25042 Note comment from Drew Houston, who had just launched Dropbox here a month before.
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by patio11 6y ago
I asked for, and got, total editorial control of my voice in my spaces when I joined. Though in any universe where my experience at Stripe wasn't positive, I would be unlikely to have stayed for four years or to have written the post,
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by patio11 6y ago
Thanks, fixed.
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by patio11 6y ago
There are many varieties of “money-forwarding scams” and many of them illicitly forward good funds, some with the knowledge of the money mules (a term of art) and some without. With regards to the exact scenario you outline, the core proble
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by patio11 6y ago
Software has two natural prices: free* and expensive. AppAmaGooBookSoft can take care of the free*, and they will invest billions upon billions of dollars more into that than you will. Your market opportunity, and your job, is to write the

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